Austin’s growing sister city relationship with Angers, France

SmartAustin has recently been excited by the opportunity to develop international relationships that can support business for our ‘smart cities’ startups, and which can be leveraged to attract international startups to Austin. In particular, we’ve been intrigued by various pro-startup gestures and efforts from the French government and have been pleased to learn about strong, related activities sponsored by the French-American Business Council of Austin, led by Liz Wiley, a local business attorney. We sat down with Liz to learn more about the budding relationship between Austin and its sister city of Angers, a rising French and European IoT center.